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World Of Google+

What’s It All About:Whether it’s typed as Google+ or Google Plus, it’s one of the newer social networks created by the gods of Google and started on June 28th, 2011.

How It All Began…Google+ is actually not the first but fourth-generation social network made by Google. Before there was Orkut (2004), Google Friends Connect (2008), and Google Buzz (2010); each having a little bit of it inside Google+. Google+’s release on June 28, 2011 started as a beta phase, by way of invitation only. Eventually, invitation only was dropped due to high volume of account sign-ups and on September 20, 2011, Google+ was opened to everyone 18 years of age or older without the need for an invitation.

What The Critics Say:When Google+ first came out, many online users thought it was Google’s way of finally competing with Facebook.

Fun Fact: Mark Zuckerberg ironically was the most followed user on Google+ on July 7, 2011, he was estimated to have a 100,000 followers by July 14th. And then there was Tom from MySpace…

Cool Stuff On Google+Circles: Google+ presents a different way of adding people, through circles. You can put someone into one of your “circles” by drag-and-drop interface. You can also modify your circles to your desire (i.e. family, friends, etc.) and the names in these circles will only be seen by you.

Hangouts: You can do group video chat that allows up to 10 people to video chat at the same time. As of September 20, 2011 you can now also do “Mobile Hangouts” through phones that have Android 2.3+ and have front-facing cameras. This feature would also allow people to share documents with others.

PRIVACY!!!Compared to Facebook, the beauty of Google+ is that it allows users to customize their privacy settings, this includes circles as well. That means you can allow certain friends to see particular parts of your information and make them see your profile to your own comfort level. So while it was estimated that Mark Zuckerberg would have 100,000 followers at some point, in honest truth we just don’t know who is possibly in his circles.

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